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travel beauty

By Marlene | Published: 30. July 2012
Monday - time for the new style column. Every week, my friend Okka asks me a style question which I then try to answer in a way that makes me look like I know what I'm talking about. So far, we've covered t-shirts and parkas. Okka and I are having a lot of fun with this. And hopefully so are you. Now, to the question... (more…)

beauty favourites

By Marlene | Published: 9. July 2012
When Ari asked me to share some of my favourite beauty buys - and, perhaps, some secrets - on her blog Primer & Lacquer, I had no idea that: 1. I have a lot of favourites. A LOT. 2. If I had fewer favourites, I'd have more money in my account (although naturally, I like to think, also less shiny hair, ahem). 3. How much I'd enjoy going through my [...]

pretty in ink

By Marlene | Published: 3. July 2012
I first met Ari last winter. We were standing in front of the fashion week tent, bundled up against the brutal Berlin winter. The next fashion week kicks of tomorrow, to considerably nicer weather. So what better day to finally write this post, which I've been meaning to do for a while (sometimes it feels like weeks only have four days, much like a fashion [...]

the power of pink

By Marlene | Published: 12. June 2012
A little while ago, Okka e-mailed me a picture of two women with the question: "Do you know where the one on the left got her dress?" "Sorry, I don't. But do you know where the one on the right got her lipstick?" She did. From Nars, in a shade called Schiap (as in Elsa Schiaparelli, a tribute to the designer's favourite colour). Okka promised to buy one for [...]

my tan

By Marlene | Published: 30. April 2012
It's the new style column. In light of current weather conditions - 25 degrees, sunshine, at least in Berlin - I'd like to make a confession: I don't tan. I get freckles instead. Which I'm not complaining about. They're quite pretty and by the end of August I usually have so many that you could mistake them for a light tan. But at the beginning of summer [...]
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